REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



C.-EEPORTS OF THE FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 



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 November U.—The Kev. Joshua Dix, F.R.H.S., in the Chair. 



The subjects exhibited were as follows :— 



Woodwardia orientalis :— from Mr. Standish, F.R.H.S., 

 Bagshot. This was a very handsome fern from the north of 

 China and Japan, introduced by Mr. Fortune, and nearly, or 

 quite hardy in this country. The fronds, which become large in 

 the full-grown plants, were nearly triangular in outline with the 

 apex, and also the apices of the pinnae narrowed to a point ; they 

 were coriaceous in texture, pinnate, with pinnatifid pinnae, and 

 the species is moreover remarkable for producing freely over its 

 upper surface little buds or bulbils, from which young plants are 

 developed. It is a very fine new garden fern, and was awarded a 

 Fiest-Class Cebtificate. 



Lomariaelongata:— from Mr. Standish. This was a young 

 moderately developed sample of another fine bold-habited fern, 

 which requires very slight, if any, protection, if planted in 

 favourable situations. The dark green sterile fronds of this 

 plant grow from one to two feet high, and are ovate-lanceolate in 

 outline, pinnatitid, with broad segments, which, as well as the 

 long narrow linear segments of the taller central fertile fronds, 

 are remarkably decurrent at the base. It is a very desirable 

 species for cultivation. Mr. Standish 's plants were imported 

 from New Zealand, of which country it is a native, but the 

 species also occurs on the mountains of India and Java, as well 

 as in some of the islands of the Pacific ocean. It was awarded a 

 Fibst-Class Certificate. 



AlsopMlaglauca:— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea, This was a young plant of a fine tree fern, sent from 

 Manilla by Mr. J. G. Veitch, and though but little developed, the 

 stems being dwarf and the fronds small, it is no doubt the Alsophila 

 contaminans of Wallich, which is synonymous with the A. glaiica 

 of J. Smith. The bases of the old fronds which formed the 

 caudex were clothed with numerous small white scales ; and the 

 stipules were clothed with hairy scales. The fronds were ovate in 

 outline, bipinnate, with the narrow oblong pinnules (an inch long in 

 this stage) cut into short oblong, bluutish, slightly-toothed lobes. 



